prices, prominent titles and oddities

In the Book Fair There are books of all kinds. You can find any variety of titles on poetry, literature, stories, novels, essays, fiction, non -fiction, manga, comic. There are also journalistic books, psychology, history, education or self -help, among other genres. But, What happens to art books? Where are they and what are the price?

Clarion He made a tour of the fair and found A large variety of publications that address artistic expressions of all kinds: visual arts, sculptures, paintings, design, photographs and poetry books written by artists, painters, sculptors or referents of art. There are national and imported books.

Upon entering the fair through the main door (on Plaza Italia) we can find several interesting national works in the Stand Pride and Prejudice (Stand 3116, Ocher Pavilion). There it is A body inside meby Federica Baeza, Former Director of the Palais de Gace, published by Editorial Mansalva. A book “Queer, politician, transvestite, powerful, travian, gay, identity, sensitive, sailed and necessary”, according to the definition of the Visual Arts, Teacher and writer Merie Gouiric.

“Feda Baeza improves everything she touches and this book, and her stories, are proof of that. Improves the night and dawn, improves a first time, improves a encounter, improves a voice and improves fear. Improves a memory of childhood, a light that enters through the window, the glitter on the face of a lover and the gesture of brushing a wig made in the air,” he summarizes in the contract. The price? $ 23,800.

In the same stand you can also get Latin American feminism and art. Stories of artists who emancipated his bodyof the prestigious art historian, researcher and curator Andrea Giuntapublished by the 21st century editors.

His work presents a theoretical and quantitative panorama of the female scene in the visual arts and stops in the intervention of artists who contributed to building an emancipatory imagination in Latin America. Travel the trajectory of The Colombian Clemencia Lucena, Argentina María Luisa Bemberg, the Lmography of Narcisa Hirsch, the formation of artistic feminism in Mexico and the production of Nelbia Romero and Peace Errázuriz In the dictatorial contexts of Uruguay and Chile as milestones of this story.

Giunta also narrates new issues such as motherhood, harassment, prostitution, divergent bodies and new forms of representation that challenge not only the differences between a feminist art and a female art, but also the power relations enrolled in the ways of seeing and showing. It also addresses the invisibility and the different violence exerted on women, among other issues. Latin American feminism and art costs $ 29,990.

Control or non -control (Mansalva) is another of the texts that stand out in pride and prejudice. They are poems written by the artist, visual, writer and curator Argentina Fernanda Laguna dedicated to the feminist world and art. They highlight “the poem of the housewife” and “to my female wipe.” The book comes out $ 23,800.

Without a doubt, the paragraph is the best place. Stand 310 (Blue Pavilion) has more than 2500 titles of all kinds: visual arts, sculpture, editorial design, textile design, graphic design, design of commercial spaces, fashion and photography, among others. There are teaching books and others more technical based on these disciplines.

With more than 45 years at the fair, the paragraph is a lighthouse if we talk about art books since it markets and exhibits imported books of art throughout its fan.

If we talk about photography, here are books of exceptional photographers such as Sebastiao Salgado, Helmut Newton, Josef Kudelka, Paul Strand O Walker Evans. According to specialists, they are classified as “jewels” of the seventh art. These specimens are difficult to find in Argentina.

Of course, in visual arts there are copies that narrate the works of Mark Rothko, Matisse, Henri Matisse, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and other copies dedicated to the artistic trajectory of the Belgian painter Pieter Brueghel or those of the Italian Amedeo Modigliani. Nor are books about expressionism and universal artists as Goya, Picasso, Alberto Durero, Anselm Kiefer and Van Gogh.

“There are also books by very few known artists from the general point of view but very specific from the particular and niche point of view that has to do with art,” they say in the stand.

As for sculptures, are the books of Auguste Rodin and Alberto Giacometti. There is also a single copy of the remarkable American painter Edward Hopper, One of the most acclaimed artists in the stand. A tremendously nostalgic book about paintings, with incredible handling of lights. The price? $ 145,000.

The books of illustrators of Norman Rockwell (Illustrator of The New Yorker 100 years ago) for $ 100,000 and $ 88,000 and several fashion books about the history of Christian Dior o Yves Saint Laurentto name a few.

All books are imported with very varied prices, From $ 30,000 to $ 300,000. In the stands of the fair you can pay in cash, credit card, debit, virtual wallets or through the promotion of the province bank, with 10% discount plus 6 installments without interest.

“We try to have the best that is edited and nobody is encouraged to bring. It is the concept of the bookstore, bring unique things,” explained the manager of the stand.

Riverside (Stand 816, Green Pavilion) has a special counter on art books of all kinds, to dive into its pages.

Is the book Photographfrom Lee Miller, with a prologue of the British actress Kate Winslet, and Neutra. Complete Worksan architecture book that brings together almost 300 homes, schools and public buildings illustrated with more than 1,000 photographs accompanied by texts in German, French and English. Both belong to the German publishing house TASCHEN and cost $ 80,000 and $ 59,000, respectively.

In Riverside there are more books or “jewels” about art in all its manifestations, such as the wonderful The National Gallery (Paintings, People, Portaits) por $385.000; Queen; Small Worldof the Australian photographer Anne Geddes. Through its magical lens it gets beautiful portraits of newborn babies disguised as bees or “wrapped” in Capults, in some cases. He also describes the pregnancy and maternity process in many women posing with his belly or next to their babies. There are unpublished photos in this extraordinary book, a tribute (and defense) to the most beautiful, small and vulnerable people who are the future of humanity, for $ 106,000.

Queen The story behind his 188 songsof Benoit Clerc (Editorial Blume), comes with the history of each song with photographs and portraits of Freddie Mercury and the rest of the members of the mythical English band for $ 100,000.

It is also Unconspective confessions, French photographer and writer Claude Cahun: A rereading of the tradition of confessions, elaborated with newspaper fragments, letters, poems, aphorisms and dialogues, where reality and fiction are mixed to give rise to a more “true” portrait of the author. A self -fiction before the self -fiction existed. According to specialists, this book is difficult to get and costs $ 31,000.

There are more art books in Feia: in Chai (1720, yellow pavilion) stand out Daybook. An artist’s diaryfrom Anne Truitt (Translated by Virginia Higa), for $ 25,500, and two great books of Celia Paul: Letters to Gwen John and Self -portrait (both translated by Esther Cross), for $ 26,000 and $ 24,000, respectively.

In the fera stand (2131, yellow pavilion) are Arte Atelier, Victoria Benaim and Magu Villar: Activity Book Illustrated for Biography Summarized by 15 emblematic artists of all time: among them; Monet, Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt, Matisse, Picasso, O’Kefe, Miro, Dali, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, Banksy y Marta Minujin y Banksyfor $ 34,000. In addition, they have a podcast that bears the same name of the book and talk about art in Spotify.

They also stand out Creative documentation logwritten and illustrated by Magu Vils, for $ 34,000, and Readers: a newspapera notebook of sketches, isolated notes of the visual artist, cultural manager and graduate in education sciences POChat of Milagros. The artist’s journey towards her first individual sample in which she portrays twenty -two women reading and looks, for the first time, her self -portrait, for $ 22,900.

He National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA) has its own space at the Book Fair 2025. Stand 3111 is located meters from the entrance, in the Ocher Pavilion. There part of the collection of photographs of Sara Facio (1932-2024).

It is a set of 24 images of authors, times and diverse genres that commemorate the work of the emblematic manager and photographer Argentina, who was in charge of forging the photographic collection of the Fine Arts that treasures more than 1500 photographs of local and foreign artists produced between the nineteenth century and the present.

THE STAND OF THE FINE ARTS He exhibits photographs of Stephen Althouse, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Claude Batho, Eduardo Grossman, Annemarie Heinrich, André Kertész, Juan Travnik, Grete Stern and Sara Facioamong others. In addition, there is a window with a selection of catalogs published in recent years.